Entries by Andrew Pessin

My eyes are going. Just last month I found myself lifting my glasses to read something, the way, you know, old people do. And my knees hurt. And the only impressive thing about the mediocre town we overpaid to buy our house in is the number of ways it is...

Delta Air Lines is currently working on adding Saudi Arabian Airlines to its SkyTeam of partnering companies, which already includes (amongst others) such foreign airlines as Aeroflot, AeroMexico, AirEuropa, Air France, Alitalia, China...

Almost everyone agrees about Israel's military superiority over its adversaries. After all, it has won all the conventional wars, as well as the less-conventional ones such as that with Hamas in 2008-09 -- Hamas's fantastic victory declarations, amidst the ruins of Gaza City, notwithstanding. But there is another war, an...

Are all the major religions the same? Obviously not. But are they ultimately the same? Quite possibly, depending on what the word "ultimately" means here. Stephen Prothero's best-selling book, God Is Not One, makes the rather easy case that the major religions are not all the same. But that is...

The epiphanies came as suddenly and strong as my newborn's projectile spit-up. Yes, I realized, I should wear a burping cloth. And also, the Paradox of the Preface is the key to universal religious harmony and world peace.

They talk a lot, and loudly, and all at the same time. If they were your family during Thanksgiving, they'd be talking with their mouths full. It would be almost amusing if it weren't, on some important level, rather tragic.